Re: "[this] underlines the increasing need for over-the-air (OTA) software updates"
"Once upon a time, there was this thing called a console. It had no Internet connection, it had a defined hardware list and games were made for it and sold on the open market. No recall was possible, the game had to work from the shelf. There was no patching."
And yet, because we're human, mistakes were still made. Take the original Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast (one of the last consoles where it was safe to assume no updating was possible). You'd have thought in a game like this they'd have tested speed-ghosting (going to fast you beat the collision detection and go through something). What about the Superman game for the Nintendo 64?
Times like this, I'm kinda reminded of The Gong Show. The basic rule was not to put on a bad act...but people still put on bad acts (some intentionally, many not).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
